ENGLISH

Romanticism and Millenarianism

By Tim Fulford

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0312240112, 9780312240110
LCC
PR575.M54 R63 2002
Open Library ID
OL3947805M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2955451 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
248\267
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Waiting for the millennium was a major feature of British society at the endof the 18th century. But how exactly did this preoccupation shape—and how was it shaped by—the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call Romantic? These essays investigate a series of millenarians both famous and forgotten, from Coleridge to Cowper, Blake to Byron; and explore the artistic and political subcultures of radical London; the religious sects surrounding Richard Brothers and Joanna Southcott, and the poetics of feminism and Orientalism. Romanticism and Millenarianism presents an expanded and rehistoricized canon of writers and artists who shaped key debates about revolution, empire, gender, and sexuality.

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